Tuncel Kurtiz

Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions. Since 1958, Kurtiz performed on many stages in Istanbul, in state and private theatres. He was also on the stage at Gothenburg City Theatre, Stockholm Royal Theatre and Swedish Theatre in Sweden, Schaubühne Berlin, Frankfurt City Theatre and Hamburg City Theatre in Germany and at Peter Brook Shakespeare Royal Theatre in England. Kurtiz directed plays for the German-Turkish theatre project "Türkisches Ensemble" in the late 1970s. During his university years and later the military service period, he became friends with the renowned film director Yılmaz Güney. They made a number of films together. Their 1970 film Umut was prohibited to leave Turkey, but was shown in Cannes Film Festival by a smuggled copy. His first film role was in Şeytanın Uşakları, shot in 1964. Since then, Tuncel Kurtiz played also in many international productions like Swedish, German, Dutch, Italian, French, British, Israel and Indian films and TV series, mostly in the original language.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bilecik, Turkey, 1936-02-01

Died: 2013-09-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim		0
2	1965	The Road That Has No End	Köylü	48
3	1965	I Live When I Die	Cemal	0
4	1965	The Last Birds	Turgut	60
5	1965	Sokakta Kan Vardı		0
6	1965	Krallar Kralı		50
7	1965	Üçünüzü de mıhlarım	Hüseyin	0
8	1965	Konyakçı		0
9	1966	Silahların Kanunu		0
10	1966	Kanli Mezar		0
11	1966	Horse, Woman and Gun		0
12	1966	Yiğit Yaralı Olur		0
13	1966	The Ugly King		0
14	1966	Law of the Border	Bekir	63
15	1967	Krallar Ölmez	Komiser	0
16	1967	Kuduz Recep	Hamza	0
17	1967	Bullets Won't Touch Me	Cengiz	0
18	1970	Hope	Hasan	73
19	1973	Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße		0
20	1974	The Bus		67
21	1979	The Herd	Hamo Ağa	74
22	1979	Kanal	Abuzer Dayı	59
23	1980	On Fertile Lands	Zeynel	67
24	1980	Hasan the Rose	Hakan / The film director	0
25	1983	The Wall	Tonton Ali	73
26	1983	Kalabaliken i Bender		26
27	1985	On a Narrow Bridge		0
28	1986	The Frozen Leopard		0
29	1986	The Smile of the Lamb	Hilmi	48
30	1989	Code Name Coq Rouge	Al-Houl	65
31	1990	Time of Vengeance	grand-father	0
32	1990	The Mahabharata	Shakuni	69
33	1990	The Guardian Angel	Ivar	52
34	1990	Die Hallo-Sisters	Samy	0
35	1994	Ağrı'ya Dönüş		0
36	1994	Bir Aşk Uğruna		0
37	1994	Love is Colder Than Death		50
38	1996	Istanbul Beneath My Wings	Topal Recep Paşa	66
39	1996	Somersault in a Coffin	Reis	75
40	1996	Işıklar Sönmesin		50
41	1997	Gräfin Sophia Hatun		0
42	1997	Sawdust Tales	Fisherman	54
43	1997	Journey on a Clock Hand	Agah	58
44	1997	Çökertme		0
45	1998	Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma		0
46	1998	Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan	Uncle Ismet	57
47	1998	Hoşçakal Yarın	Ali Elverdi	80
48	2001	In Foreign Soil	Self	0
49	2001	O da Beni Seviyor	Masalcı	60
50	2001	The Waterfall	Kel Selim	45
51	2002	A cavallo della tigre	Fatih	54
52	2004	Tales of Intransigence		50
53	2007	The Edge of Heaven	Ali Aksu	72
54	2008	Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb	Said	60
55	2009	Pains of Autumn	Kamil Efendi	52
56	2010	Black and White		55
57	2012	My boy, look at the stars	Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems	80
58	2013	Happy Family Journal	Yıldırım Taşyumruk	61
59	2017	The Legend of the Ugly King	Self (archive footage)	70
60	2025	All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Scene of the Crime	Der Kleine	61
2	1991	Amforans gåta	Papa	0
3	1992	Kvällspressen	Abdel	50
4	2003	Alacakaranlık		75
5	2006	Hacı		0
6	2007	Asi	Cemal Ağa	72
7	2009	Ezel	Ramiz Karaeski	84
8	2011	Magnificent Century	Ebu Suud Efendi	81

Tuncel Kurtiz

Film

Television